DemonGoddess

After doing some more digging and testing, it actually appears to be OS related, more than anything. Apparently this particular menuing script is NOT Windows Vista compliant. I don't have these issues, and cannot duplicate them on my XP machine. ONLY on the Vista machine.

I've fixed part of it, but only part of it. The actual menu controls need adjusted to allow for certain character types at the top level category, which should then fix this entirely. In any case, if, for example, you select an area to upload in, and in the dropdown box for subcategories, there are no selections, right click, and select reload from the menu which pop ups. This will correct the no display of the subcats.

you keep giving 'em to me, I'll keep killing 'em.....

all of 'em are gone.

aff was started as a small archive, in response to the M rated stories being pulled at ff.net. There is no affiliation between the sites. I have a general idea of the what's and why's overall, but someone else who's been around since the beginning on the back end of all this would be better served to outline it all for ya. I CAN tell you from recent experience, that we're actually addressing things now that should have been addressed quite some time ago, simply due to the growth of the archive itself. It started out with something like 200 stories altogether, years ago. Of course, there's much more than that now. So, now we're in the process of making software to fit the site needs, while also shoring up, stabilizing and maintaining what's already here and in place, which we've outgrown. The current software itself simply doesn't provide the functions and capabilities we need for an archive of this size.

Melrick has made valid points. Anything like this needs some form of structure, which is what foe is outlining for all of you who are considering participating. By having a structure, you have cohesivenes and flow. I'd think it'd be more of a challenge to try and write with others, within a specific structure, than it would be to write by oneself. I've actually done this sort of thing before, but as a crafter. Without having a specific guideline to work within, our end result of a round robin was really really UGLY. I also used this as a teaching tool for drawing (sometimes) and just as a silly thing to do WITH drawing. Again, without a bit of structure involved, it got out of hand, and was certainly not enjoyable.

user will be emailed, story is deleted This is the actual TOS violation by the way

That's part of what your guild is for too, you know. You have access to the treasury so you can buy potions, just like all other guild members.

Quite frankly the search function in the archive is awful. But yes, it works the way FairyNiamh said to do it. We are planning to entirely REPLACE the search function, with something that is far better suited to searching a database the size of this one. The original search function wasn't designed with a large database in mind. As to moving the stories? The authors themselves can easily do that. All they need to do is edit the story, reselect their main category, and then select the sub or sub with sub sub (as that is how it generates the dropdown). i.e. The user would reselect "naruto", and from there (if it's a pair specific type fic) either het, yaoi, yuri, or threesomes. In this example you initially gave (Naruto/Sasuke) the selection would be Yaoi>Naruto/Sasuke. As to moving directly from my end, I do that direct IN the database.

they're.....not there....anymore....

fixed

fixed

it, and it's associated files are all gone.....

fixed

Chapter one appears to have been an uploaded html file, which was converted from a word doc. Because of how the archive works for what is allowed, the data is there, just not displaying. Fixed. Chapter 2 is unsquished

fixed

it's history

bye bye

First question would be where do you want to upload TO? First, you have to be sure you're in the subdomain you want to publish to. Either use the tab menu towards the top, or the jump menu in your user panel. From there, you would click the "add story" link. Once you've filled out your title, summary, and selected any appropriate warnings (all required), select your primary category. I don't know why, but it's not allowing selection of subcategories at the moment. We will look into this. Unfortunately, there appears to be a bug, in that after you do all this, and then publish, you must then go back and EDIT to make sure it's in the right place. So, after you publish the story initially, for now, until this is fixed, you then would edit, and then select the primary category, and then the sub or sub sub. The sub sub categories appear in the subcategory drop down with their parent, followed by ">" and the sub sub name.

moved

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The historical based fiction categories are actually being moved to originals, as the fiction that was there belongs in the originals section (in fact those categories are already IN the originals section). It will be eventually completely gone. If you were wanting to upload a story based on a historical type BOOK, then you can request that category be created.